I don't remember where I saw this, but I heard someone set up one of those reductive-but-fun dichotomies by saying "every action game is a dodge game or a parry game". I had just finished Silksong at the time and had picked up Nine Sols to try and get some more Metroidvania with difficult combat, but as it turns out, I really like dodge games and dont like parry games.

Trying out Songs of Syx again - I bounced off it early on, but I don't think it had the tutorial when I tried it first. I'm really interested in getting into a colony sim that really cares a lot about settlement layout.

Also, now that my modded Gamecube is working, I'm going back to the best Animal Crossing game - the original US Animal Crossing. I assume a lot of it is my nostalgia, but I really do think that the later entries strayed a bit from the charm of the original as they gave the player more control over their town/city/island. I'm trying it with the Animal Crossing Deluxe mod adding in a bunch of QoL features from the later games and I think this might be perfect for me.

How has performance been for you? I saw a batch of early reviews that sounded like there was a little bit of shakiness, but looking back now that doesn't seem to be the case.

The story in Alice's Restaurant is (mostly) a true story, and Judge James Hannon was a real person who was really blind. He played himself in the movie version of Alice's Restaurant (as did Officer Obie, under the logic that it'd better for him to make fun of himself than for someone else to do it)

I'm going to piggyback off Douglas Hofstadter and say the works of M.C Escher - things like Reptiles in particular. It's the same idea of starting with a simple, often repetitive, theme, then developing it into more-complex versions that still have the influence of the original.

God I can't wait for Prime 4